Cigarette-making machine



C. CESARE. CIGARETTE MAKING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JAN.26, 1920.

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GASTEL'LABI GESARE, 0F MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

CIGARETTE-MAKING MACHINE.

Application filed January 26, 1920.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CASTELLARI CnsARn, a subject of the King of Italy, and resident of the city of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-lVIaking Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptron.

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette rolling machines, and the object of the invention is to provide a simple, durable and efficient machine, small enough to be caried in the pocket, by means'of which a person may quickly and easily roll cigarettes.

The device comprises, broadly speaking, a forming tube composed of two troughshaped members hingedly connected and a rotating member within the former, adapted to wrap the paper around the tobacco.

- In the drawings which illustrate the invention Figure closed.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device open.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation of the device.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 11 and 12 designate a pair of troughshaped members whose curvatures are of equal radii, the member 11 having a tangentially projecting extension or lip 13. The opposite edge of the member 11 is hingedly connected to one edge of the member 12, so that the mcmbers'may be swung into position to form a substantially cylindrical tube, as shown. in Figs. 1 and 3, or opened to permit the insertion of paper and tobacco. The member 12 is provided with one or more lugs 14 which limit the opening movement and make the apparatus more easily handled. One end of the member 11 is provided with an extension 15, which is bent to true cylindrical form and which forms a bearing for a revolubly mounted cap .16. A troughshaped plate 17 is connected at one end to the cap and passes through the cylindrical extension 15, within which it may be rotated by revolving the cap. The curvature of the plate 17 1 is a plan view of the device is concentric w1th the curvature of the trough members 11 and 12 when in their normal relation as clearly shown in Fig. 3,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

Serial No. 354,022.

so that by turning the cap the plate 17 may be rotated within the tube formed by the member.

Theoperation of the device simple. The machine is open, as shown in Fig. 2, the plate 17 being in the position shown. The cigarette paper is placed in the member 11 upon the plate 17 and the necessary tobacco distributed uniformly on the length of the paper. The paper is placed with the gummed edge uppermost and lying upon or projecting beyond the lip 18. The opposite edge of the paper projects upwardly in front of the member 12. The member 12 is now folded down to its normal position and thereby folds the paper roughly upon the tobacco and at the same time compresses the tobacco. The tightness of the packing may be regulated by the degree of pressure applied to it toward the member 11. The cap 16 is now is extremely revolved and carries the ungummed edge 0. the paper around inside the gummed edge.

f the gummed edge of the paper has been previously moistened and the cap 16 given one or more complete turns, the cigarette will be revolved on its axis within the device, so that the gummed edge is drawn in and paper, one of said members being provided at the hingedly connected portion thereof with stop lugs adapted to limit separation of the members, the other of said members being provided opposite the hingedly con nected portion thereof with a proj ecting lip lying outside of the longitudinal opening and forming a support for the gummed edge of the cigarette paper, and a forming plate movable within said members.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto my hand.

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